Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

- Bill Nye

Best Quotes about Laughter

If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

Proverb, French

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.

Walsh, Dr. James A

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Byron, Lord

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

10.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

11.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

12.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

13.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

15.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart

16.

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Mandino, Og

17.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

18.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

19.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

20.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

21.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

22.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

24.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

25.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

26.

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Baudrillard, Jean

27.

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

28.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.

Hazlitt, William

29.

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Hitchcock, Raymond

30.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

Sterne, Laurence

31.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

32.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

33.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

34.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Cousins, Norman

37.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

38.

No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

Paul, Jean

39.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

41.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Osler, Sir William

43.

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Edgar Watson Howe

44.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Kundera, Milan

45.

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Chrysosatom, St. John

46.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Addison, Joseph

47.

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.